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• 🖼️ Hang it in the Louvre
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🧁 GOAT muffin flavors

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Each of the following events happened on August 10. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) The Louvre is opened as a public museum in Paris by the French revolutionary government after two-plus centuries as a royal palace. Today, the Louvre’s collection is one of the richest in the world, with artwork and artifacts from 11,000 years of human civilization and culture.
• B) Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, takes her own life following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome.
• C) A temperature over 100°F is recorded in the United Kingdom for the first time ever. It’s part of an intense heat wave that scorches the European continent for roughly a month, claiming 35,000+ lives.
• D) The first movie with a PG-13 rating—Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze—opens in US theaters. It comes one month after the Motion Picture Association of America had announced the brand-new movie rating category.

Hint: The Louvre is located on the site of a fortress built by King Philip II.

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The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Fresh style from the barber's chair”...

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Cats have been stealing scenes since movies began. Sometimes, they even let the humans have a supporting role.

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🧽 SpongeBob Burger Ride: Take a break from the Krabby Patties and help SpongeBob collect the burgers and pizzas!

🏈 Superbowl Defender: Suit up as an elite defender and stop the running backs from scoring in this football arcade game.

💍 Wedding Shopping: It’s time for the big day! Can you complete the shopping list before the time runs out and the wedding is ruined?

🧁 THE GREATEST MUFFIN FLAVORS OF ALL TIME

1. Blueberry
2. Cinnamon Streusel
3. Lemon poppy seed
4. Banana nut
5. Cranberry orange

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Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change.

B, A, D, C

• B) 30 B.C. – Cleopatra dies by suicide.
• A) 1793 – The Louvre is opened as a public museum.
• D) 1984 – Red Dawn is the first movie to be released with a PG-13 rating.
• C) 2003 – The UK records its first-ever temperature over 100°F.

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